Debian Bug report logs - #601063
dpkg: please, allow to select which hunks of a conffile will be installed by the new package

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From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dpkg: please, allow to select which hunks of a conffile will be installed by the new package

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:54:45 -0200

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.8.5
Severity: wishlist

Hi there.

I am just upgrading my packages today and I had dpkg prompt me for the
substitution of a conffile by the maintainer of a package.

Something inspired by "git add" that would be very cool to have,
directly or indirectly, in dpkg would be to select which hunks of I file
I want to add on my system and which ones I don't.

In that sense, it would be very similar to what one gets when
"git add --interactive" does. Perhaps some code from there could be
taken?

I hope that you like this idea. :-) It would rock for system
administators.  :-)


Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils         8.5-1                  GNU core utilities
ii  libbz2-1.0        1.0.5-6                high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6             2.11.2-6               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1       2.0.96-1               SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  xz-utils          4.999.9beta+20100927-1 XZ-format compression utilities
ii  zlib1g            1:1.2.5.dfsg-1         compression library - runtime

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt                           0.8.7      Advanced front-end for dpkg

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